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What Causes Severe Pain I The Chest?
I have sharp sometimes knife like pain in my right side of chest or lung while I strain, breathe in, and pain afrer I swallow food and beverages no sickness or fever or cough I m 35 I do have copd and have blebs but I don t know what is wrong with me it s been like 4 days now can anyone help me please
Fri, 24 Oct 2014
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Pain on inhalation, coughing is seen in pleuritic pain. Pleurisy (inflammation of pleura) can cause this type of pain.
Causes of pleurisy in COPD patient are
1. Infection like pneumonia.
2. Pleural effusion.
3. Pneumonthorax
4. Pulmonary contusions.
So please get done chest x ray first to rule out these causes.
If chest x ray is normal than it must be muscular pain only.
So avoid painful movements and take good pain killers and muscle relaxant.
Pain on inhalation, coughing is seen in pleuritic pain. Pleurisy (inflammation of pleura) can cause this type of pain.
Causes of pleurisy in COPD patient are
1. Infection like pneumonia.
2. Pleural effusion.
3. Pneumonthorax
4. Pulmonary contusions.
So please get done chest x ray first to rule out these causes.
If chest x ray is normal than it must be muscular pain only.
So avoid painful movements and take good pain killers and muscle relaxant.
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